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Category Archive: Articles

What If Your Love Life Is Suffering Because Of BJJ?

Balancing BJJ with the rest of your life is never an easy task. Sometimes, those different areas of life come into direct confrontation with Jiu Jitsu – with one of them being the relationship you...

You Can’t Just Give Up When Stuck In A Bad Position

Jiu Jitsu is difficult! It puts you in all kind of uncomfortable positions, which you struggle to escape from; while at the same time your opponent is figuring out how to crush your spirit even more....

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Bow and Arrow Choke

As the title suggest this article is all about how to execute the bow and arrow choke for the beginner. This is for the complete beginner who wants learn how to use this choke correctly and...

6 Ways How Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners Make Great Lovers

Written by Gloria Coccoli, BJJ practitioner and widfery student. She started training Jiu-Jitsu at Ground Pressure Team Messina in Italy. Check out her great blog aroundtheju. I am sure most of you...

3 Ways to Win the Initial Gripfight in BJJ & Impose Your Game

“He who grips first, wins!” If there were one most important thing to do at the beginning of a BJJ match, then it would be to establish some sort of control and dominance over your...

10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s father and coach Abdulmanap passed away earlier this month in a Moscow hospital after complications from the corona virus at the age of 57. The Mirror first reported. After...

3 Ways To Use The Kimura Grip In BJJ

Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...

Foam Rolling: Here’s Why Every Grappler Needs To Do It

If you’re really dedicated towards becoming better in BJJ, then you should already know that it’s not just the training that will get you there. You need to incorporate other things as...

Khabib Nurmagomedov Releases First Statement Since His Father Passed Away Earlier this Month

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s father and coach Abdulmanap passed away earlier this month in a Moscow hospital after complications from the corona virus at the age of 57. The Mirror first reported. After...

Defending Takedowns Against The Cage

Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...

127 lbs Bruno Malfacine Proves That Size Is Not An Issue In Brazilian Jiu -Jitsu

For smaller grapplers out there in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world, things can be a little tricky when you enter competitions and step onto the mat to see that your opponent is a hulking figure, almost...

The Importance of Strategy In Your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training!

Photo: Kim Hovgaard of Aalborg Jiu-Jitsu Academy/ About Aalborg Selvforsvar & Ju-Jitsu Klub You can be the meanest, strongest guy on the mat come competition time, but does it really matter if...

Company Sells Artificially Aged Martial Arts Belts Online

In martial arts like BJJ, Judo or Karate, you will often see instructors with very old black belts that have lost their black colour and actually look white. This shows all the years of hard work,...

How To Do The Infamous Seatbelt Neck Crank

Guest post by Mark Lajhner, founder and chief instructor of Kaizen MMA Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a Judo black belt (Serbian national team member), BJJ purple belt and multiple medallist in...

Dramatically Improve Your Ability To Finish From The Back with Marcelo Garcia

Here are some of the key details to make your seat belt from the back a whole lot more dangerous and start finishing more chokes just like Marcelo Garcia. These no-gi techniques were perfected by...

Ex-Navy Seal Commander & BJJ Black Belt Jocko Willink on How To Avoid Injuries in BJJ

Hooray, you just made a decision to start training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! BJJ will introduce great things to your life, such as: better health, stronger self-confidence, awesome friendships, the...

Pressure Pass Straight To Mount, With Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida

Jiu Jitsu doesn’t have to be complicated in order to work… In fact, most often it’s the basic principles and techniques which will grant success! It’s just a matter of tying...

5 Tips To Make Intermittent Fasting Work For You

Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...

3 Things Your Martial Arts Instructors Wish You Did Before, During, and After Class

Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...

Research Finds Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners To Be The Least Aggressive Martial Artists

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is more than a sport, for most of frequent practitioners – it’s a way of life. It can also be a way to change your life. You hear of people who claim to lead the BJJ...

10 Superfoods To Amp Up Your Weight Loss

Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...

Do Grapplers Need Bench Press?

Written by Matt D’Aquino, a multiple Australian and Oceania Champion and a 2008 Beijing Judo Olympian. He has been studying Judo for over 23 years. He is a 4th Degree Black belt and a black belt in...

10 Best Stretches For Jiu-Jitsu

Flexibility is so important in Jiu-Jitsu because it really makes all the vast number of techniques much easier to do (for ex gogoplata, inverted guard etc..). Increasing flexibility is going to help...

10 Best Strength Building Exercises For Fighters

Strength is your base and everything is build on top of it. In order to improve at other physical attributes and in your overall performance you must build strength. Funk Roberts goes through the...